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Sunday, March 20, 2005

I'm really tired of hanging out at the frog pond.

I did not get to knit all week, but late last night, I finally got the chance! I stayed up late knitting last night and then knit for most of this afternoon.

I worked a little bit on Zee Red Scarf:

However, I had some pink yarn in my stash that was calling to me, so I decided to whip up a two tone pink scarf. I was using size 17 (yes, 17!) needles, so the scarf knit up very quickly. In fact, after just a few hours, I had this:

Just after taking this picture, I bound off.

This is where something went horribly, horribly wrong:

Somehow, I dropped a crapload of stitches when I was binding off. So, I frogged back. Then I dropped more stitches and frogged back again. Finally, I got so frustrated that I ended up with this:

:: big sigh ::

My mother was right: haste makes waste. I was trying to get this scarf finished before dinner and look what happened. Let this be a lesson to me!

So, let's sum things up.......I didn't get to knit all week and when I finally did, I messed up the bind off and ended up with nothing. It's a good thing that it's the journey of knitting I love and not the end result! :-)

I did watch a movie this afternoon: Open Range. I fully expected to like this movie. I enjoy all of the actors, I enjoy this type of movie, but guess what? I was bored out of my mind. The story just moved so slowly and the movie never really interested me.

I also watched a Little House DVD today, so all was not lost. :)

Sue, Rebecca, Happy and Kristen all stopped by the blog. I'm glad I could point Sue to the Freecycle link and I hope Kristen likes the chicken! Rebecca runs the Say No To Ponchos webring that I just joined. The webring is just in good fun, so if you do wear ponchos, don't worry. I won't boot you from reading my blog. :) I just believe that if I wore a poncho the first time they were in style, I'm too old to wear them this time!

My Garth puppy loves to play fetch too. Actually, we can't even say the words "go" or "ball" around the house because then he expects that he'll get to go play ball. We tried the frisbee thing, but he likes good ol' tennis balls.

I can't see the pics since I'm at work and I think the site for the pics is blocked by our firewall. At any rate, sorry about the frogging issue. I hate it when that happens!! I picked up a scarf I was making a few weeks back and realized that there's a big ole bump out the side about 3 rows down. This wouldn't be so bad, but it's the LB boulce yarn and it is just too tedious to try to back out the stitches. Argh! I believe I'll be heading to 'ye ole frog pond' tonight. Oh well, I wanted it a bit thinner anyway, so what the heck.

I love your dogs but that picture of the horizon freaked me sideways. I have always lived in or near mountains. Whenever I see a flat horizon I want to fling myself to the ground and hold on in case I fall off. I may be slightly agoraphobic, no?